Autonomous system
AS12455 JAMBONET
Unclassified AFRINIC NSP
Summary
Telkom Kenya
isp telecom eyeball legacy
Kenya's national gateway network, with animals for router names.
What it's used for
- National internet access. 303,104 addresses in thirty-eight IPv4 prefixes, one IPv6
/32, and ten observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The AS handle is
JAMBONET, the name of the country's gateway service. - Reverse DNS answers with Swahili animal names —
twiga,kiboko,chuiandndovu, undertelkom.co.ke. Sixteen of eighteen sampled addresses returned one of the four. - The registered holder is still recorded as
Kenyan Post & Telecommunications Company / Telkom Kenya Ltd, both names in one field. - Every block that resolves carries the same organisation netname,
ORG-KPTC1-AFRINIC.
Interesting
- Giraffe, hippo, leopard and elephant, one per range. These are router names, not host names — thousands of addresses answer with a single label because the reverse zone is delegated at the block and the aggregation router replies for all of it. Whoever built this named the machines and let the addresses inherit.
- The holder field is a merger and a demerger at once. The post and telecommunications monopoly was separated into a postal service and a telephone company, and the registry kept both names joined by a slash rather than choose between them.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
Recorded at 1 exchange in 1 country, largest first.
| Exchange | Location | Their address |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi | Nairobi, Kenya | 196.223.21.14 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 38 prefixes · 303K addresses IPv6 1 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| KE | Kenya | 39 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered
- 2007-09-17
- Allocation
- allocated
Declared
PeeringDB profile
- Name
- Telkom Kenya
- Also known as
- Telkom Kenya
- Network type
- NSP
- Scope
- Africa
- Traffic ratio
- Mostly Inbound
- Peering policy
- Open
- Present at
- 1 exchanges
- Facilities
- 8 facilities
- Website
- http://telkom.co.ke
PeeringDB records are maintained by the network operator and are not independently verified. Treat them as a statement of intent rather than of fact. For the observed and recorded view, see peering, which lists the exchanges Packet Clearing House has a port on file for.
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 145 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS12455
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 145 of 145 announcements
- Route objects
- 208 naming AS12455
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 436 networks and 1,771 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere